From card: "Self bow of yew? wood; quiver of skin; arrows short, wood and bone heads 3 feathers; very rude [sic]."

Small plate carved from black argillite. Three concentric circles are incised on bottom, inner surface. A rim (1.2 cm. wide) is incised with stylized leaf patterns. Underside of plate is elaborately carved with flower and leaf design. Crosshatch is used as background filler.Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including floral and leaf motifs, compass-drawn motifs, cross-hatching. Has original Peale # label.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

FROM CARD: "FACE WITH UPRIGHT EARS: PAINTED BLUE; FOREHEAD, OUTLINE OF EARS, EYES NOSE TIP, LIPS, TOTEMIC DESIGN ON CHIN, PAINTED BLACK; INNER-MOUTH RED. STRING AND LEATHER TIES IN BACK."

Accession file identifies original #91, Catalogue No. E20876, as stone mortar and pestle from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people], Alaska. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Admiralty Island.

From card: "Cedar= Inner bark of arbor vitae. Blanket twine &c are made from it." From Swan tag with artifact: "This bark was formerly woven into blankets as is now down by some of the tribes of the West Coast of Vancouver Id. The inner bark of common cedar of N.W. Coast arbor vitae for textile fabrics Bedding of infants, twine, lines, basket work +c."

From card: "Raven." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Exhibit Hall 9, case 33, where it was identified as a human-raven mask.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. Having an ear on a bird was common, the masks represents a transformed human or humanoid bird. This one has human eyebrows and a human forehead.